IOC-000060280 - Setup Prerequisites / language selection
MichaelU submitted a feature request a little over 2 years ago for being able to retrieve the selected language from within a setup prerequisite as either a registry entry/environment variable etc, and I was wondering if this, or something similar was available in InstallShield 2009 -- I need fuel for the fire to get management to approve an upgrade for me:
MichaelU wrote: Lynn, thanks. I've submitted this as IOC-000060280, and while I cannot guarantee a time frame for its inclusion, you can watch the release notes or ask back on the community for status updates. I don't expect to see this in our upcoming release; perhaps the one after that.
In the past, I created my own bootstrapper for "setup.exe" that is a dialog that looks exactly like the language selection dialog in "setup.exe" except this time I know exactly what language the user selected because I can set an environment variable. However, if for some reason "Autorun" doesn't work, then the user is prompted for a language selection twice... a bit inconvenient, but, it worked...
Just wondering if this was available in InstallShield 2009 - I don't know how to check up on IOC's or feature requests..
Ability to Use Windows Installer Properties in Command-Line Statements for InstallShield Prerequisites Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, and Web installations now can substitute and pass the following properties on setup prerequisite command lines: ProductLanguage, ISPREREQDIR, SETUPEXEDIR, and SETUPEXENAME. You can use these properties to identify the launching installation ("[SETUPEXEDIR]\[SETUPEXENAME]"), to identify full paths to files that are included in the prerequisite ("[ISPREREQDIR]myconfig.ini"), or to pass the selected language to multilingual prerequisites such as an InstallShield setup launcher (/l[ProductLanguage]). The new feature prerequisites include command-line support for any Windows Installer property, including the aforementioned properties.
You can specify the command lines on the Application to Run tab of the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor.
